[CentOS-devel] CPE to staff EPEL work

Fri Dec 17 19:44:25 UTC 2021
Michel Alexandre Salim <michel at michel-slm.name>

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 02:59:30PM +0000, lejeczek via CentOS-devel wrote:
> On 13/12/2021 21:21, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/13/21 12:00, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2021 at 11:45, lejeczek via CentOS-devel
> > > <centos-devel at centos.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 12:51 PM lejeczek via CentOS-devel
> > > > and a month later...
> > > > It's taking somewhat long.
> > > > 
> > > > I'll ask a question not just I must be thinking - obvious
> > > > rather - is that wise to let one arch be a such a blocker
> > > > for the whole lot?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It isn't blocking anylonger. You seem to have missed the various
> > > emails about EPEL-9 being built for the last several weeks.
> > > 
> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/9/
> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/9/
> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/next/9/
> > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/testing/next/9/
> > 
> > Also https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/epel-9-is-now-available/ on
> > December 3rd.
> > 
> > 
> If it is all functional and ready for consumption - why not include its
> package in default(s) repo (as it's been with all previous CentOSes) instead
> of adding more instructions & howtos.
> Then 'dnf repoinfo' should give out enough info for admin to know what is
> what.
> 
That's a good question. I'm guessing it's because CS9 is a proper
upstream to RHEL9, whereas even CS8 is actually still a rebuild, so CS9
can't ship anything RHEL9 won't ship.

Note how for all RHELs you always have to use DNF with a URL to the
epel-release RPM:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/epel/#_el9

Best,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim
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